(2.)  In the sense of “confessing” sins, the Verb is not uncommon in the N.T. Matt. iii. 6; Mark i. 5; James iii. 16., and in the early Fathers Irenæus, I. xiii. § 5; III. iv. § 3; Clem. Alex. Protrept. ii. § 41:  ἐξομολογοῦνται οἱ δαίμονες τὴν γαστριμαργίαν τὴν αὑτῶν..  Tertullian adopts the Greek word, and calls exomologesis “the handmaid of repentance De Pœnitentia, c. xii.,” adding that it will extinguish the fire of Gehenna in the heart, being a second remedy for sin, after Baptism.